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J. E. GILLESPIE. Fire-Hose.

No. 225,698. Patented Mar. 23,1880.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES E. GILLESPIE, OF WARWICK, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO FABRIC FIRE HOSE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

FIRE-HOSE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 225,698, dated March 23, 1880.

Application filed December 1, 1879 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES E. GILLEsPIE, of Warwick, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fire-Hose, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of hose known as multiply hose, and generally made seamless, of a combination of textile-fabric tubes and india-rubber; and it consists in rendering the inner ply or plies water proof, or nearly so, and the outer ply fire-proof, or as nearly so as possible, the whole being lined with a rubber tube to render it entirely waterproof.

To make hose under my invention I prefer to take a woven tube of cotton or other textile fabric and fill or saturate the fiber thereof with any waterproofing compound, but prefer a solution of rosin or other analogous substance dissolved in a volatile solvent, and iudia-rubber or similar substance, also dissolved in a volatile solvent. The proportion of each can be varied to suit various requirements; but about six to ten parts of rosin to one part of india-rubber will make a good water-proof compound for hose. This saturation can be accomplished in any convenient manner, either by immersion or by brushing upon the exterior.

0 A rubber tube, A, Figures 1 and 2, can be inserted either before or after the saturation of the fabric, in the usual manner well known to those skilled in lining fabric hose with rubber tubes.

Any number of fabric tubes can be assembled together, the one over the other, each being separately saturated; or they can first be assembled and then saturated with the waterproofing compound.

Most waterproofing compounds are inflammable, and I prepare the outer tube or jacket of fabric with a fire-proof compound, for which purpose I prefer borax, three parts; boracic acid, six parts; sal-ammoniac, fifteen parts; and water, about one hundred parts; but other compounds can be used with equally good ef' feet. This outer tube can be prepared before being drawn over the water-proof or inner tubes, or afterward.

What I claim as my invention is-- An improved fire-hose consisting of a rubber lining, A, outer fire-proof tube, 0, and intermediate water-proof tube or tubes, B, all arranged substantially as shown, and for the purpose set forth.

JAMES E. GILLESPIE.

Witnesses:

JOHN J. BEATTIE, JAS. H. HOLLY. 

